John Furrier

John Furrier is founder, co-CEO, of SiliconANGLE Media consisiting of SiliconANGLE.com. theCUBE.net, theCUBEresearch.com, and our AI Video Media Cloud. The combination of all these brands creates a new media company covering the intersection of computer science and social science. Furrier's vision is of a future that uses technology and data to create quality content and user experiences while creating and growing quality communities.

Simply put: To extract the signal from the noise! Our motto: we cover everything "where Computer Science meets Social Science". Furrier lives in Palo Alto, California.

Latest from John Furrier

Breaking Analysis: EMC VMware Lays out the Pivotal Initiative – EMC’s Silver Lining Playbook: EMC Owns 69% – VMware Transfers 500 Employees

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER13 YEARS AGO

There is an old saying “there is a silver lining in everything.” Well Joe Tucci and team found it, with the Pivotal Intiative spin out. One thing about Joe Tucci that I’ve come to admire in my interactions with him is his …

Actifio Scores $50M at $500M Valuation in Series D to Take On EMC and IBM and Go IPO

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Actifio just announced a new round of financing for another $50 M for a total greater than $100M in funding. Actifio, Massachusetts based technology firm, is taking advantage of two of the biggest mega trends in the technology business Software-led Infrastructure (SLI) and …

Microsoft Adds Android Support for Azure Cloud

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Microsoft is announcing support for Android for Windows Azure. This is good news for developers who need to have both a reliable system and distribution support across all leading mobile platforms. Microsoft promised that it would deliver first-class support for developers …

Management of Big Data Systems Conference on Autonomic Computing

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Top industry engineers and developers creating the big data industry are gathering for a conference in June to explore the innovation around practical examples of how to effectively manage big data systems. The event is the 10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing …

Big Data Insights from Silicon Valley #strataconf – Strata Conference 2013

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

SiliconANGLE and Wikibon teamed up again on another successful theCUBE live multiday broadcast at O’Reilly Media Strata Conference. Four days of non-stop, continuous coverage all week covering the show, as well as two major Big Data announcements early in the week. Here …

Skyhigh Networks -Bringing “Shadow IT” Out Into the Light

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

“Shadow IT” can be a real security risk, it can also present a significant support pain, even when your IT doesn’t endorse any of it. Enterprise shops have been dealing with this forever as computing and applications become increasingly commoditized and easy …

Samsung and Centrify Partner on Enterprise Mobile Solutions – Dashes BlackBerry Hopes

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

One of the welcome surprises that came out of last month’s BlackBerry 10 announcements was how the company had embraced the enterprise need for a scalable, secure BYOD management solution. BlackBerry rose to the occasion with the launch of the BlackBerry Balance …

Hortonworks Announces New Apache Projects with Stinger Initiative, TEZ, & Hadoop Gateway

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Hortonworks today announced the submission of two new incubation projects to the Apache Software Foundation and the launch of the Stinger Initiative, three efforts aimed at enhancing the security and performance of Hadoop applications. Hortonworks is fully supporting Hive as the standard query …

Stormpath $8.2m Series A Funded by Pete Sonsini at NEA to Drive Secure Software-led Infrastructure

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Stormpath a startup announces $8.2 million venture round of funding with NEA, Pelion Venture Partners, and Flybridge Capital. Stormpath is popular with developers and just formally exited its beta period with more than 1,000 users onboard and launched general availability of its …

NetApp Announcing Flash Technology to Achieve Software Defined Storage with Flash Array

NEWS By JOHN FURRIER14 YEARS AGO

Netapp is announcing an all-flash array for software-driven enterprise applications, and its new, purpose-built FlashRay™ product family. According to Netapp this new direction will deliver rich scale-out and storage efficiency features to maximize the benefits of all-flash arrays. The new product introductions is …

John Furrier

Latest from John Furrier

Breaking Analysis: EMC VMware Lays out the Pivotal Initiative – EMC’s Silver Lining Playbook: EMC Owns 69% – VMware Transfers 500 Employees

Actifio Scores $50M at $500M Valuation in Series D to Take On EMC and IBM and Go IPO

Microsoft Adds Android Support for Azure Cloud

Management of Big Data Systems Conference on Autonomic Computing

Big Data Insights from Silicon Valley #strataconf – Strata Conference 2013

Skyhigh Networks -Bringing “Shadow IT” Out Into the Light

Samsung and Centrify Partner on Enterprise Mobile Solutions – Dashes BlackBerry Hopes

Hortonworks Announces New Apache Projects with Stinger Initiative, TEZ, & Hadoop Gateway

Stormpath $8.2m Series A Funded by Pete Sonsini at NEA to Drive Secure Software-led Infrastructure

NetApp Announcing Flash Technology to Achieve Software Defined Storage with Flash Array

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